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 Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins, Op-Ed Analysis: Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has sponsored an amendment to kill the rider, whose official name is "the farmers assurance" provision. But even if DeFazio's amendment makes it through the House vote, it still has to survive the Senate. Meanwhile, organizations like the Organic Consumers Association, Center for Food Safety, FoodDemocracyNow!, the Alliance for Natural Health USA and many others are gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures in protest of the rider, and in support of DeFazio's amendment. |
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 Ben Sherman, News Report: More than 25 percent of Texans – 6,234,900 people – are uninsured, the highest rate in the nation. After five years of the Affordable Care Act, Texas would be able to insure 1,798,314 more Americans under the Medicaid expansion alone – more than any state in the nation. Setting up a state health insurance exchange would enable the remaining millions of uninsured Texans to purchase affordable health insurance. |
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![]( "Are Republicans Ready to Drop") Dave Johnson, Op-Ed: President Reagan reduced taxes on the wealthy, while greatly increasing military spending. This left behind huge deficits, and a dramatically-increased national debt. (It also pushed income distribution up to the top few.) President 'W' Bush used the same formula to reverse President Clinton's budget surpluses. This was effective and by the time President Obama took office the country had a budget deficit of $1.4 trillion in a single year! |
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 Lisa Garber, News Report: Leaders in the disinformation campaign launched against the labeling initiative cry out that it would be—like the infamous Proposition 65, "The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986"—a way for bounty-hunting trial lawyers to file suits against even natural food companies for supposedly selling products containing undisclosed GMOs. Of course, GMO's ally StopCostlyFoodLabeling.com receives funding from the Council for Biotechnology Information. |
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 William D. Hartung, Op-Ed: Today, from climate change to pandemics, apocalyptic scenarios (real and imaginary) have only multiplied. But the original world-ender of our modern age, that wonder weapon manqué, as military expert, TomDispatch regular, and author of Prophets of War: Lockheed and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex Bill Hartung points out, is still unbelievably with us and still proliferating. |
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 Christa Hillstrom, News Report: Critics have argued that the recent spotlight on subsidized Stafford loans detracts attention from more serious issues and highlights a victory that is really not that significant: the doubled rate would have impacted just 3 percent of student debt. What the faith-based momentum around last week's vote does mean is that both progressive and conservative groups—even if only a few—have claimed what is often a divisive political issue as a unifying moral and spiritual cause, and connected the dots between debt and perpetual injustice. |
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 Amy Goodman, Video Report: Currently, 16 states have passed restrictive voting laws that have the potential to impact the 2012 election, including vital swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania. We speak with Robert Notzon, the Legal Redress Chair for the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and co-counsel in a lawsuit challenging Texas' voter ID law; and Ari Berman, who covers voting rights for The Nation and Rolling Stone magazines. |
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 Paul Buchheit , Op-Ed: The soldiers are college-age men and women who can't find jobs or pay tuition, and who are seduced into submission by the promise of eventual rewards. The Vietnamese jungle has turned into Wall Street. For those of us who weren't particularly good activists in the 60s, age has widened our perspective, and the lack of opportunities for our children has given us a second chance to protest, to help make it clear how the leaders of my generation have abandoned the people they no longer need. |
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 Ken Ward Jr., News Report: A decade earlier, Main was director of safety for the United Mine Workers union when the Clinton administration announced its plan to end black lung. It included a government takeover of dust monitoring and similar changes to sampling techniques, but no tightening of the dust limit. Main said the Clinton proposal didn't go far enough. |
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 Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: The law broke the copper kings' legislative chokehold, and a century later, it was still working to put people power over money politics. Even today, the average cost of state senate races in Montana stands at only $17,000. This low cost enables candidates to spend more time talking to everyday folks, and it contributes to one of America's highest voter-turnout rates. |
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 Jim Lobe, News Report: Independent analysts here, including some who have long expressed skepticism over administration claims of the regime's vulnerability, largely echoed that view, agreeing that Tlas's departure has struck a major blow to the regime, which has relied for some 40 years on unity between the Alawite minority, of which the Assad are a part, and the Sunni military and business elite. |
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 Phil Rockstroh, Op-Ed: The indicators strongly suggesting the existence of the Higgs Boson -- a particle that serves as a creator and connecting principle of (seemingly) disparate matter -- comes to us in an age, when the people of the U.S. seem unwilling or unable to connect the fact that greenhouse gases, emitted from the tailpipes of their automobiles idling at drive-thru windows of fast food outlets serving industrial bred, raised, hideously exploited, cruelly slaughtered, and carelessly processed animal flesh (an even larger contributor to Climate Chaos than the aforementioned automobiles' exhaust particles) are responsible for less than propitious changes to global climate patterns. |
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